The report stated that a woman who worked at SpaceX said that she received multiple requests from Elon Musk to visit his house at night as evidenced by a text message.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, had sex with a SpaceX employee and a former intern and also demanded that a woman at his company should give him babies. While some executives and board members of SpaceX and Tesla were concerned about the billionaire’s alleged use of illegal drugs, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Musk has cultivated a workplace culture that made women uncomfortable. Earlier it was revealed that Elon Musk took drugs like LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and ketamine sometimes with some board members.
According to the report, female employees at Tesla were treated in a way that was ‘creepy’ or ‘sexual’ or were ‘pursued’ by Elon Musk. This comes after a woman who worked as a SpaceX flight attendant said that in 2016, Elon Musk exposed himself to her and offered to purchase her a horse in exchange for sexual favours.
In 2013, another woman who worked for SpaceX also left the company and in the course of her exit interview, she accused Elon Musk of asking her to bear him children. The Wall Street Journal also revealed that there was a woman at the company who had a month-long affair with Elon Musk in 2014, and she was his subordinate. The relationship deteriorated and she had to resign from the company and she was barred from talking about her work with Elon Musk.
The report stated that a woman who worked at SpaceX said that she received multiple requests from Elon Musk to visit his house at night as evidenced by a text message.
“Come by!” Elon Musk wrote to which the woman did not respond. The billionaire then sent the following messages as per the report: “Look, it’s either me or 6am [exercise] :)”
“Just finished the Model 3 production call. It’s def going to be hell for several more months.”
“Are you coming over? If not, I will probably tranq out. Too stressed to sleep naturally.”
“Probably best if we don’t see each other.”
The woman texted Elon Musk in the morning, saying, “Oh man. I’m sorry, I’d already fallen asleep. I’ve been a late night person most of my life but have been trying to switch over because it seems responsible. Tbh. Sorry I crashed last night.”
On the few occasions that she went to Musk’s house, the woman said in one of the affidavits, they watched TV and talked. In the email, she said they watched anime and talked about the Tesla Model 3 production ramp up and the “technical future of humanity.”
Friends said she told them at the time that the job wasn’t going well because it had gotten awkward with Musk. Eventually she moved off the executive staff to a role reporting to another engineer.
The Journal’s article cites text messages, emails, and other documents. It is based on interviews with more than 48 people, including friends and family members of the women, as well as former employees.
Musk didn’t reply to WSJ’s requests for comment. Shotwell said the WSJ’s request for comment “paint[s] a completely misleading narrative” of what working for SpaceX is like, and that the WSJ story doesn’t reflect SpaceX’s culture. She also said that SpaceX investigates all harassment complaints and responds appropriately.
Musk, who is one of the richest men in the world, leads companies including the publicly traded electric-vehicle maker Tesla, rocket-maker SpaceX and social-media platform X.